This booklet explains the administrative team concept, argues for greater participation of the principal on this team, and provides a typical board-administrator agreement. The administrative team is described as a tool that provides not only a formal agreement for administrators, but also an internal structure that ensures participation by principals in important decisionmaking. The report concludes that an administrative team, which maintains simultaneously both formal and informal systems of participation in decisionmaking, offers a professionally satisfying approach to school district administration. (Author/JF)